By Rollin Hadsell Monitor Staff Writer MABANK–Although the Mabank Lady Panthers had trouble scoring, the defense stepped up to take care of business in a low-scoring 27-23 win against Crandall Dec. 6 at Mabank High School gym. The way the Lady Panthers played the first quarter, it looked as if the game was going to […]

COLUMBUS, OHIO.–American space hero and longtime Ohio U.S. senator John Glenn died Thursday at the age of 95. He had been hospitalized for more than a week at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth in a flight lasting just five hours aboard the Friendship 7 […]

By Pearl Cantrell Monitor Staff Writer SEVEN POINTS–Sunday night Dec. 4. traffic was stopped on State Highway 274 in Seven Points while a helicopter was landed to evacuate a man to a Tyler hospital following a collision. Jerry Starek, 52, was taken by air in critical but stable condition after having collided with through traffic […]